Isolating languages
The words in an isolating language are invariable. To put it another way, it is composed of
free morphemes and so there are no morphemes to indicate information like grammatical number
(eg plural) or tense (past, present, future). Mandarin Chinese is often quoted as an example of
such a language (although some claim Vietnamese to be a better example). The transliterated
sentence:
gou bú ài chi qingcài
may be literally translated as:
dog not like eat vegetable
Depending on the context, it can mean any of the four following sentences:
the
dog
did
not
like
to
eat
vegetables
the
dogs
do
not
like
to
eat
vegetables
the
dogs
did
not
like
to
eat
vegetables
dogs do not like to eat vegetables
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